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Primary Carcinoma of the Esophagus

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Primary carcinoma of the esophagus includes squamous cell carcinoma and adenocarcinoma (typically arising in Barrett’s esophagus). Carcinoma of the esophagus represents 7% of all cancers of the gastrointestinal tract (Levine and Halvorsen 2008). Historically, the majority of esophageal malignancies represented squamous cell carcinomas (90–95%); however, adenocarcinoma has increased in incidence dramatically in recent years, especially in the United States. Currently, less than 50% of esophageal cancers diagnosed in the United States are squamous cell carcinoma (Blot et al. 1993). However, worldwide 95% of esophageal cancers are squamous cell carcinomas. Although these neoplasms exhibit different pathologies and some differences in behavior; many of the imaging features are similar and they both have a poor prognosis with more than 50% of patients presenting with unresectable tumors and overall 5 year survival rates of only approximately 15% (Wang et al. 2005).

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Carucci, L.R., Halvorsen, R.A. (2013). Primary Carcinoma of the Esophagus. In: Hamm, B., Ros, P.R. (eds) Abdominal Imaging. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13327-5_9

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